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The Searchers
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Film. Characters are Ethan, Martin, Debbie. Washita Massacre, Brown vs. Board of education, cold war. Takes place in Frontier/Texas/Mexico. Scar kidnaps Debbie. Example of Captivity narrative.
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Man Called Horse
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Short narrative. Characters are Horse and Greasy Hands. Author is Dorothy Johnson. Takes place in Frontier/Boston. Example of captivity narrative
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Dear John Wayne
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Poem by Louise Erdrich. Group of indians watching movie at drive-in, watching western movie starring John Wayne
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Little House on the Prairie
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Book by Laura Wilder. Characters are Jack, Mary, Carrie, pa and ma. Takes place in Prairie/ frontier. Describes indians as smelling like "skunk"
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Phillip Freneau's Poem, "Indian Burial Ground"
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Poem about Indian grave yard. Describes indians as sitting in grave rather than laying down, bringing Indians back to nature. Freneau was known as "Poet of the Revolution". romanticizes death, worthy of our sympathy. Emphasis on the dead.
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Song of the Hiawatha
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Short narrative by Longfellow. Example of noble savage. Involves Manabozho trickster indian character
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Chief Seattles Speech
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Speech answering Chief Seattle by Albert Furt Wangler. Henry Smith and Lowe rewrote speech. Smith reconstructed speech, and had to rely on interpreter. Speech was in Seattle Sunday Star Article
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The Enchanted Bluff
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Short story by Willa Cather. Discovery of Cliff Palace involving old tales of Indians. Robert Retawill discovered Cliff Palace in 1888.
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Sipapu
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Poem by Wendy Rose
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The Story of how a Wall Stands
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Ortiz
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Modernism
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Examples: the Bear. Response to war, idea that everything is falling apart. Hyper-real. Disillusionment, primivitism, experimentation
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Primitivism
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Example: Nanoook of the North, Man Called Horse. The desire to return to previous life.
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North American Indian Project
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Curtis' recording, documents, photographs
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Indian Ghosts
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Example: Chief Seattle, The Enchanted Bluff
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Regionalism
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Referring to a specific place
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Anasazi
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Cliff Palace
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Indian Detour
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Railroad leaders were trying to get people to go to Cliff Palace
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Yoknapatawpha County
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fictional county in "The Bear" that Faulkner made up. County was based on real places Layfayette county and Oxford. Means 'split land'. Chickasaw chief Ikkemotubbe.
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Southern Literary Renaissance
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Literary group Faulkner was in
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Veritism
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Hammond Garland, against only single absolute perspective (uses different narratives) example: faulkner. "Seeing truth from many directions."
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Princess Angeline
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Image in Curtis photo vs. Pocahontas
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Robert Peary
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Connected to Nanook of the North, he was was a well known traveler, involved in "Race to the Pole"1897 ship called Pope
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Allochronic
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Representation of Indians in a current time but utilizing the past. "plymouth plantation" for example
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Captivity Narrative
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captive somehow becomes a mediator between Indians and whites
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Curtis
Definition
Rothi and Curtis photographers. 'Curt-tone'. Moving Pictures, to draw sympathy, removal of westernization, all sepia tone. Example of: Allochronic (use of wigs) and pictorialism which is artistic technique within photos.
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Nanookmania
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Everyone was hooked on tales of eskimos. "eskimo pie" media and marketing incorporated. Arctic as primitive. Important site within colonialism.
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The Bear
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Book by William Faulkner. Faulkner was told by fellow author to write about "postage stamp of Native Soil" aka the Bear. Modernism. The bear was about the southern social system, decay of the old south. Ownership of land and vanishing wilderness. post-civil war, change inspires art.
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